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cageyness

cageyness is the alternative form of caginess.

Meaning of caginess

Noun

caginess (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being cagey.
    • And as a much better NYT comment piece on queerbaiting put it last year: “As self-serving as some celebrity caginess can be, you can’t build a world in which everyone feels free to self-identify by ordering everyone to self-identify.”2024 January 10, Laura Snapes, “Taylor Swift’s people shut down speculation about her sexuality – but risked rebuking her LGBTQ fans”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Origin of cageyness

From cagey + -ness.

Questions about cageyness

What is cageyness the alternative form of?
Cageyness is the alternative form of caginess.

Words near cageyness in the dictionary

  1. cagewash
  2. cagewashes
  3. cagework
  4. cageworks
  5. cagey
  6. cageyness
  7. cagged
  8. Caggiano
  9. Caggianos
  10. cagging
  11. Cagiano

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cageyness (page history and authors); caginess (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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